In Resident Aliens, Stanley Hauerwas and I warned that seminary biblical courses sometimes disempower budding preachers: See? You’ll never have the linguistic, analytical, or historical skills to ...

(See Mark 3:14-15, Matthew 4:12-17 and 13:1-52, Luke 4:14-29 and John 1:35-51.) The Third Luminous Mystery is quite expansive: “the call to conversion and the proclamation of the Kingdom.” All of ...

The kingdom of God is both present reality all around us and a vision that we work toward in the future. The time has come. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Good News! That was Jesus ...

It is easy to imagine that the most important work of God's kingdom happens in extraordinary moments—a stirring sermon, a ...